augustus at linuxhardware.org wrote:
> I confirm that I am having a weird problem on one of my systems. It
> sounds very similar to the bug you are describing. Odd thing is, it only
> happens on specific hardware. i.e. If I run the same hard disk on two
> different machines, one has the problem and one doesn't. It's odd and
> I've done many many many things to try and track this down with no luck.
> If you think you have a software fix, I'd love to see it as soon as you
> get a chance.
>> Thanks,
> Kris Kersey (Augustus)
> LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
>augustus at linuxhardware.org> Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer
>augustus at gentoo.org>
What are the respective hardware specs of each machine? Offhand I'd
guess that one machine has enough RAM and the other doesn't, but it
could be something more complicated.
I seem to remember very long map load times around last summer but I
haven't had any trouble recently - about 15-20 seconds. I ran some
quick-and-dirty measurements of how much memory UT2004 is using.
Before running ut2004:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1022892 644032 378860 0 64312 334032
-/+ buffers/cache: 245688 777204
Swap: 0 0 0
After loading ut2004, sitting at the main menu:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1022892 855752 167140 0 64616 403532
-/+ buffers/cache: 387604 635288
Swap: 0 0 0
After loading ONS-ArcticStronghold:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1022892 1017152 5740 0 26032 374424
-/+ buffers/cache: 616696 406196
Swap: 0 0 0
After exiting ut2004:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1022892 651080 371812 0 26680 374296
-/+ buffers/cache: 250104 772788
Swap: 0 0 0
So, at least on my system, ut2004 happily consumes about 360 MB of
memory (judging from the the free memory listed on the -/+ buffers/cache
row). I don't know if ut2004 uses less memory on systems with less RAM.
-Corey